After making the move to Windows 7 a few months ago everything went fine regarding my tablet. Then a month later the driver died, i installed a newer version of the tablet for W7 and since then ive been having nightmares regarding the touch functionality of the tablet.

As of a week or two ago, the pen functionality has started dieing too. Im almost certain that what ever problems im having is not related to the tablet itself but my machine.

When photoshop is not the active window, my pen can control the cursor to any position on the screen, however once photoshop is the active window, i can only control the upper left corner of the monitor. Ive tested it on a few apps and the same is happening on Fireworks, After Effects.

I would actually recommend contacting Wacom forums or Wacom customer service with this problem as it does not sound like Photoshop is affecting this in any way. Good luck! I would be a wreck if my wacom stopped working....

However i have uninstalled, rebooted, installed the latest driver numerous times and nothing is changing

With the mapping, i have reset the settings for it, but the same is still happening Perhaps i havent explained properly.. its currently working perfectly fine. but if i were to launch photoshop right now, and have it has the active window, im limited to were i can move the cursor to, simply making another window active will change this back to being perfectly fine.

Just something that hasn't been mentioned yet. In the Wacom tablet properties, have you tried selecting Photoshop as an application to see if that has anything to do with the workings of the tablet? I have no idea if it will or not.

I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM!!! My Tablet worked fine for a day, NOW anytime I open Photoshop or Illustrator it only works on the upper left hand corner of the screen. No answer anywhere on the web... several other people having the same problem. Every one just keeps saying install new drivers, install new drivers... we've all done that and it doesn't solve the problem.

Go to Start menu -> Pen tablet and run the tablet preference utility to remove the settings, which resets and restarts the driver. If the problem remains, go to the Windows control panel 'programs and features', select the 'features' list and uninstall the 'optional pen/tabletpc components', then restart Windows and test it. If you need the Windows pen inking features, install the optional components again. Usually this corrects the problem.

If I have photoshop already open and reset the wacom-preferenceutility the pen works well on the whole screen (till I start another adobe program), but without pressure-levels..

The last reply of Wacom:

Try to start PS while pressing Ctrl-Alt-Shift to reset the program to its defautls as well. If it still does not work, I suggest check with Adobe for known problems.

I have just spoken to Wacom Tech Support and have received a resolution for this problem (I have an Intuos 4, small) for both CS5 and Lightroom 3, under Windows 7.

Problem description: the tablet would only function in the top left area of the full screen when running Photoshop and in Lightroom only a portion of the image window, plus the pointer jumped all over the place on menu items.

1. Wacom does not have anything posted in their knowledge base nor is there a resolution posted on the Wacom Community Forum.

2. Wacom Tech Support recognized the issue immediately and walked me through manually updating the driver (even though I had installed the latest driver once again this morning). The TS said their driver does not always install correctly under Windows and they find it necessary to manually update.

3. The TS indicated that they would not post this as a known issue and therefore would not post a solution in their Knowledge Base because each computer was unique and required their direction. You must call Wacom Tech Support (800-922-6613) to individually receive directions (be at your computer when you make the call).

I think they won't post because of the uninformed viewpoint that some companies retain, that problems make their product look bad - Wacom should consider how happy their customers would be if they could readily find a known issue and its resolution - how many frustrated Wacom users have experienced this problem? Probably close to the number of units sold.

I had this problem too and rung Wacom tech support, who fixed the problem - this may not work for everyone, but it sure worked for me. I'm running a Windows 7 64-bit system with CS3 with an Intuous 2 tablet.

I tried all of the above and it still didn't work for me. So I uninstalled everything, cleaned out the reg, unplugged the tablet and restarted. Then I installed the drivers with no tablet attacted and then restarted again. Upon restart I plugged in my Bamboo Fun and BAM! It finally worked.

I recently purchased the Intuos4 medium tablet and I am having a simlar problem The cursor will not cover the entire screen. It stops short of the bottom only when using Photoshop. The tablet works fine with Dreamweaver. I was NOT able to solve the problem by opening Wacom Tablet Properties, selecting Grip Pen, All applications and Mapping. I then clicked Default which set the Service Area to Full and the Tablet Area to Full. Force Proportions is not checked. Cursor is still stopping short of the bottom of the screen. I am running the most up-to-date Windows drivers for the Intuos 4. Downloaded them yesterday from Wacom download.

I have this Wacom Graphire and, having recently upgraded to Windows 7 and having just got CS5, I now have this random problem.

Yesterday, the tablet worked great. Today, suddenly it conforms to a laggy top corner of the screen, but only when I have Photoshop or Illustrator as the active window.

I've followed the forums' many solutions; the only thing that seemed to work was reseting my tablet preferences, which killed my tablet hotkeys along with all of the adjustments but it undid the problem so that was fine... for about 5 minutes, then my tablet started acting sort of like a mouse and started to click instead of brush.I've had this problem before too, the old solution being that I had to open Photoshop with the tablet, not my mouse, or else it'd be confused. This isn't working now.

So I'm really frustrated again. I'm about ready to sell this graphire, as drivers for it are a pain and no one else seems to have this model so solutions are infrequent.

Outside of contacting Wacom, which I plan to do in the next few minutes, does anyone have any solutions for the odd screen problem AND why my graphire is acting up? What's so different between graphire, Intuos, Bamboo, etc??

OK, I had the same problem, and the post above worked for me with the following reservations. If you are using Win7 64 bit Pro you may run into permission problems when the search on 'wacom' returns a bunch (5 in my case) of results. Win7 makes it awfully hard to remove .sys files. Out of the 5 listed you will have to go to each individual location (r click, go to folder) to see if you can delete from the actual folder (Win will not allow you to delete anything from the search results listed). IF you get a prompt about not being a trusted installer, don't try to delete.

One of the files will delete easily from the containing folder, the others won't. That's the one you want to delete - I know that sounds dumb! Reinstall the driver - it's Pen Tablet_5.2.4-5 for a CTE-630BT Graphire wireless, start the discover process in Bluetooth and it will link up and install the driver. BTW if you have a bluetooth divice left over from a previous driver install/BT connection, delete it and start the discover process again.

I am using design standard CS5, Lightroom 3. Good luck, this crap drives me crazy. It's not like I don't shell out a wagonload of money for good software and good hardware. Why isn't it easy?

I recently bought a Bamboo Pen tablet and was having the same problem in Lightroom 3.3, cursor stuck in upper left quadrant. But after reading some of the posts here, I did the following and it seems to have solved the problem.

1. Disconnect the tablet

2. Uninstall the driver (even tho I already had upgraded to the lasted version 5.2.4-5)

3. Restart the machine

4. Download and reinstall the driver, same one.

5. Reconnect the tablet.

5. Bingo, all fixed. Makes no sense to me, but it's still working one day later.

I am surprised that installing an updated driver did not complete these steps, which is a little disappointing, and I was getting concerned that me recently purchased Intuos 4 tablet was not going to do the job properly.

I have the same problem, tried the solution, I only have one HID-Compliant Mouse and when I try to update the driver manually, it just tells me that Windows thinks the driver si up to date, should I desinstall my tablet driver and download an older one to update it this way ?

I installed the drivers and uninstalled them countless times. I uninstalled and installed CS6 and none of this solved my problem.

I ended up going to

Start>All Programs>Bamboo>Bamboo Preference File Utility

In the "Bamboo Preference File Utility" under "All User Preferences" I clicked "Remove" allowed it with administrative privilages when asked, then setup my tablet preferences again. and opened photoshop. This worked but only temperarily. i have to do it every time I open photoshop now, until some permanent fix is found